After leaving the Rio Grande Valley March 21, we stopped in Austin for a couple weeks to visit with our daughter and her family and then on to our old stomping grounds outside the Dallas Metroplex. We stayed at East Fork Army Corp of Engineers park on Lake Lavon in Wylie, Texas. Unfortunately, Wylie made National news on Monday, April 11. Grapefruit and baseball sized hail rained down on Wylie for ten minutes. We watched, helplessly as these large stones hit our trailer, truck and car. It looks like our Rhino Roof on the trailer paid off because the trailer suffered little damage, just a broken vent cover over the shower and bent fins on the air conditioning units. The claims adjuster estimated the combined damage on our two vehicles at over $9,000. We were thankful they were not totaled, just a broken windshield and many dents, but still fully functional.
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| These are the biggest hail stones we have ever experienced. |
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| After the storm passed, we had a beautiful sunset. |
Leaving Wylie on Tuesday, April 19, we headed west on I-20 and joined up with I-10. We drove three days, and then stopped in Deming, New Mexico, for a four day weekend. Deming is a nice little town of 15,000 in the southwest corner of New Mexico. The Escapee Campground is level, clean and friendly. There are four interesting New Mexico State Parks all within 35 miles of the campground.
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Escapee Dream Catcher RV Rainbow Park
Deming, NM |
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City of Rocks State Park was formed by erosion
of ancient volcanic activity. |
Pancho Villa State Park, contains exhibits which commemorate the 1916 Pancho Villa raid of the town of Columbus, NM. After the early morning raid on the town, General Pershing was sent to this small border town along with 10,000 troops. They pursued Pancho Villa 500 miles for 10 months before giving up and returning north to U.S. soil, just in time for the U.S. to enter WWI.
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| Columbus, New Mexico |
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| The Original Border Custom Station in Columbus, NM |
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| Desert Bird of Paradise in Columbus, NM |
5 comments:
So sorry to hear that you got caught in that hail. It is good to know that your RV came through well. Too bad about the truck and car!!
Thank you. We were thankful we had a spare vent cover on hand to repair the one that had foir hail balls through it.
So sorry to hear about the big hail! wow is all I can say. Love New Mexico. Will you be working in Washington?
We are enjoying the dry weather after all that rain. We decided to take the summer of and spend three months touring Washington state. There is so much to see and do there. Won't be back to the valley until Halloween time.
OMG...I always worry about hail!!! Catching up...been away for a while.
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